Tag: native american

Navajo Rug Weaving – March 2023

Diné weaver Lois A. Becenti with Diné Be´iinà – The Navajo Lifeway. Navajo Rug Weaving Classes are returning to OFPL in March and every 4th Friday of each month. Join OFPL in-person at the Main Library on March 24th at 10:00 AM. Learn the fundamentals and techniques of rug weaving in the traditional Diné style, including warping, carding, and spinning.

Octavia Fellin Public Library
115 West Hill Ave.

March 24th at 10:00 AM

Please bring your own weaving materials and projects to work on.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

We READ, We TALK Hybrid Book Club – March 2023

Register below for a copy of The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich.

Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C. This powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman…READ MORE

Attend one of the discussions and keep the book! Discussions will be in
April via Zoom or in person at the Main Library.

Book Club Registration

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Creative Corner – Dreamcatchers

Create your own art using materials found around your home! Can’t make the in-person workshop? Watch a video replay on our YouTube channel. Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-served basis using the Supply Request Form at ofpl.online.

Facebook @galluplibrary
YouTube at Octavia Fellin Public Library

November 25th at 3:00 PM

Learn how to create your own dreamcatcher using wire, suede lace, string, beads, and more as well as its history and significance to the indigenous people.

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Kidz Cinema – Brother Bear (2003)

Join OFPL in-person at the Children & Youth Library every Saturday at 2:00 PM for weekly family-oriented film screenings.

The Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

November 19th at 2:00 PM

Brother Bear (Native American heritage month)

2003 | G | 1 hr. 25 mins.
When a young Inuit hunter needlessly kills a bear, he is magically changed into a bear himself as punishment with a talkative cub being his only guide to changing back.

Email pneilson@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

OFPL does not own the rights to this video. Courtesy of YouTube.

Creative Corner – Beaded Rosettes

Create your own art using materials found around your home! Can’t make the in-person workshop? Watch a video replay on our YouTube channel. Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-served basis using the Supply Request Form at ofpl.online.

Octavia Fellin Public Library
115 West Hill Ave.

November 18th at 3:00 PM

Learn beading basics to create your own indigenous-inspired rosette.

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Midweek Matinee – Catch the Fair One (2021)

Join OFPL in-person at the Main Library every Wednesday at 4:00 PM for weekly film screenings of award-winning, classics, documentaries, newly released, and specially selected films.

Octavia Fellin Public Library
115 West Hill Ave.

November 16th at 4:00 PM

Catch the Fair one (Native American Heritage Month)

2021 | NR | 1 hr. 25 mins.
A former champion boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

OFPL does not own the rights to this video. Courtesy of YouTube.

Navajo Rug Weaving

Diné weaver Lois A. Becenti with Diné Be´ iinà – The Navajo Lifeway will host Navajo Rug Weaving Classes on the fourth Friday of every month. Join OFPL in-person at the Main Library on August 26th from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Learn the fundamentals and techniques of rug weaving in the traditional Diné style, including warping, carding, and spinning.

Octavia Fellin Public Library
115 West Hill Ave.

August 26th from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Please bring your own weaving materials and/or projects.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Creative Corner – Dreamcatchers, Pinch Pots, & Basket Weaving

Join us in-person at the Children & Youth Library on Fridays at 3:00 PM. Get creative and make your own art using materials found around your home! Courses are geared towards ages 13 years and up.

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

August 12th at 3:00 PM

Celebrate & honor 100 years of Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial by creating your own dreamcatchers, pinch pots, and baskets. Craft supplies will be provided. 

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Gallup’s Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial: A Photo Retrospective

– Grand Opening Weekend –

August 12th
10:00 AM to 7:00 PM

August 13th
12:00 PM to 8:00 PM

The city of Gallup invites you to celebrate the centennial of Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial through images and objects, an exhibition curated by the Octavia Fellin Public Library at the Rex Museum located on the corner of Historic Highway 66 and 3rd Street.

Rex Museum
301 West Historic Highway 66

The exhibit will run through September 2022. Email tmoe@gallupnm.gov for more information.

Sand Painting

Join us on Facebook, @galluplibrary, or YouTube at Octavia Fellin Public Library on Mondays at 4:00 PM. Create your own art using materials found around your home! Courses are geared towards individuals approximately 15-years and older.

Visit our Facebook page HERE

Visit our YouTube channel HERE

MONDAY, November 29TH
STARTS AT 4:00 PM

Celebrate and honor Native American Heritage Month by making your own sand painting. Traditionally sand paintings are used in ceremonial practices but we will be using the fundamentals to create a unique painting.

Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-serve basis using the Supply Request Form.

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.